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Due to improved healthcare, communicable diseases are declining as a cause of death worldwide. However, non-communicable diseases are rising and now cause more mortality and morbidity. Countries now face a dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Obesity is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases and has become a serious public health problem in some countries. It is increasing rapidly in both developed and developing nations due to economic transition and is considered a global epidemic, particularly affecting children. Risk factors for obesity need to be addressed through various interventions to prevent it from worsening and impacting public health.

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Introduction

Due to improved healthcare, communicable diseases are declining as a cause of death worldwide. However, non-communicable diseases are rising and now cause more mortality and morbidity. Countries now face a dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Obesity is a major risk factor for non-communicable diseases and has become a serious public health problem in some countries. It is increasing rapidly in both developed and developing nations due to economic transition and is considered a global epidemic, particularly affecting children. Risk factors for obesity need to be addressed through various interventions to prevent it from worsening and impacting public health.

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Introduction: Due to rapid economic transition and better medical facilities there is an decline seen in death rates due

to communicable diseases in world. But at the same time there is increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Due to reverse trends seen there is increase seen in mortality and morbidity rate due to non-communicable diseases as compared to communicable diseases. The countries face dual burden of communicable and non communicable diseases. Key metabolic/physiological changes that increase the risk of NCDs include raised blood pressure, overweight/obesity, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. Obesity increases the risk of a number of chronic diseases. In some countries, it has become a very serious public health problem. The increase in the prevalence of obesity during the last two or three decades has arisen so rapidly that the World Health Organization (WHO) has described it as a global epidemic (WHO, 1997) and termed it as globesity.1 Obesity is viewed as an emerging epidemic on a rise in both developed and developing countries over a past few decades. There has been a major shift from obesity primarily being a public health concern of the most affluent societies to now in less industrialized countries particularly those undergoing economic transition, such as the Gulf states 2 The rapid global increase in obesity of recent years includes children of all ages around the world (Foresight, 2007, p25).Lobstein et al (2004) estimate that worldwide there were over 155 million overweight school children with a further over 30-45 million that were obese.3 There are many risk factors for non-communicable disease out of which obesity is the major risk factor. Obesity in turn has many risk factors. This risk factors needs to be identified and addressed by various modes of intervention like primordial and primary prevention at a individual and community level so that it doesnt become a public health problem. DALE and HALE is improved

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